Surviving and Thriving with Chronic Illness

Dr. Diana, both a doctor (therapeutic optometrist), and a recovered POTS and ME/CFS patient, offers help and hope for POTS, Dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Lyme, vascular abnormalities, Fibromyalgia, and Multiple Sclerosis. Dr. Diana is now working full time at POTS Care.

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What others say

“I have been very ill for over two and half years now. While I was diagnosed early on with Autonomic Dysfunction, I continued to see tons of specialists around the country trying to get fully diagnosed as I knew that Autonomic Dysfunction, while being very disabling and affecting several systems in my body, was not the only syndrome that could explain all of my signs and symptoms. After going from Doctor to Doctor, I was referred to a Geneticist who was finally able to diagnose me with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome over a year and a half after the Autonomic Dysfunction diagnosis. While no one wants to be told they have additional health problems, I was grateful to simply have a diagnosis to explain some of the symptoms that I knew were not simply related to Autonomic Dysfunction alone.”